The affectation of sanctity is a blotch on the face of piety. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Temperance is corporeal piety; it is the preservation of divine order in the body. — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
All holy piety in public, and all peeled grapes and self-indulgence in private. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The old harlot, German philosophy, has finally turned into a church lady. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Patience is a noble virtue, and, when rightly exercised, does not fail of its reward. — George Washington Copy Share Image
Being kind to someone, only to look kind to others, defeats the purpose of being kind. — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“Is that what they teach you at the convent? That the gods demand the hearts from our bodies?” — Robin LaFevers Copy Share Image
There are three degrees of filial piety. The highest is being a credit to our parents, the second is not disgracing them;… — Confucius Copy Share Image
A hypocrite [is the one who] wants to impress others with an external facade of religious piety that he knows is devoid… — Sam Storms Copy Share Image
The reason that Christianity is the best friend of government is because Christianity is the only religion that changes the heart. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
You might think that religion was the one area in which professional jealousy would take a back seat. But no: ecclesiastical memoirs… — Craig Brown Copy Share Image
I have now lost my barrier between me and death; God grant I may live to be as well prepared for it,… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“Superabundant piety/righteousness (and its practices) is that form of life that enhances the individual and the community simultaneously.” — Michael Joseph Brown Copy Share Image
An atheist is but a mad, ridiculous derider of piety, but a hypocrite makes a sober jest of God and religion; he… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
A Deity believed, is joy begun; A Deity adored, is joy advanced; A Deity beloved, is joy matured. Each branch of piety… — Edward Young Copy Share Image
The intellectual's ... playfulness, in its various manifestations, is likely to seem to most men a perverse luxury; in the United States… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles, and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One task of literature is to formulate questions and construct counterstatements to the reigning pieties. And even when art is not oppositional,… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“So modern scientists are the pious cult of yesteryear?” "Exactly. Their dated dogma of immediacy and parsimony, while digestible, is ultimately untrue… — Larry Fort Copy Share Image
“The afflictions of the wicked exasperate them, enrage them, stone and pave them, obdurate and petrify them, but they do not crucify… — John Donne Copy Share Image
As a social and as a personal force, religion has become a dependent variable. It does not originate; it reacts. It does… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
It is proverbial, of course, that man never learns from history, and, as a rule, in respect to a problem of the… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“ I once took pleasure some place in seeing men, through piety, take a vow of ignorance, as of chastity, poverty, penitence.… — Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“The source to low self-esteem is the lack of control you feel you have in your life. If you spend your life… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
It is often lamented by the churchmen that Washington and Lincoln possessed little religion except that found in the word 'God.' All… — David Swing Copy Share Image
Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“There is only one salvation for you: take yourself up, and make yourself responsible for all the sins of men. For indeed… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“As sinners we are like addicts - addicted to ourselves and our own projects. The theology of glory simply seeks to give… — Gerhard O. Forde Copy Share Image
“When Benjamin Franklin invented the lightning-rod, the clergy, both in England and America, with the enthusiastic support of George III, condemned it… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“It is a delightful thing to write, to cease to be oneself, to flow through the whole creation of which one speaks.… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Sensible of the importance of Christian piety and virtue to the order and happiness of a state, I cannot but earnestly commend… — John Hancock Copy Share Image
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